David Rabinowitch
David Rabinowitch ( born March 6, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a Canadian- German sculptor and draftsman.
Life and work
David Rabinowitch was born in 1943 in Ontario Canada, the son of an architect and a philosopher. His twin brother is the sculptor Royden Rabinowitch. Early on, he began to engage in philosophy. Spinoza's Ethics, he read with eight, and sixteen Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. His philosophical interests with flowed into his art.
Rabinowitch studied from 1963 to 1966 natural sciences and English literature at the University of Western Ontario, is engaged in the same time as painting. The first solo exhibition took place in 1968. In 1972 he moved to New York and had from 1974 to 1975 a lecturer at Yale University. Since 1984 he has worked as a professor of sculpture at the National Art Academy Dusseldorf.
Since 1968 represents Rabinowitch work of solid sheet metal manufactures and works directly on the ground.
" In addition to the sculpture in the work of Rabinowitch marks the formal drawing a completely separate area. Like the sculptures, they make the claim to address perception. (...) He seeks to dealing with volume and explores varied from the relationship between mass and dimension to basically explore the " design of the vision ." In the process of looking at the principles of our perception should be understandable and recognizable. "
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo Exhibitions
- 2012 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2004 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
- 2004 Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
- 2000 Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Münster
- 1999 Galeria Zachęta, Warsaw, Poland
- 1999 Gallery Starmach, Krakow, Poland
- 1999 Museum of Modern Art, Niepolomice, Poland
- 1998 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1993 Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
- 1988 David Rabinowitch, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Group Exhibitions
- 2013 SCULPTURE ONLY! Kunsthalle Mannheim
- 2013 The sculptors. Dusseldorf Art Academy, 1945 to the present art collection Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
- 2011 The Nature of Art Kunstmuseum Winterthur
- 2011 new colors. A selection from the Kemp Museum Kunst Palast collection, Dusseldorf
- 2010 Modern Times: responding to chaos Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
- 2009 1968th The Great innocence Kunsthalle Bielefeld
- 2008 House and sky Museum Kurhaus Kleve
- From 2006 until Doig Rabinovich Provincial Kunstmuseum Bonn
- 2004 David Rabinowitch Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada
- 2004 National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, Canada
- 2000 Rabinowitch Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Münster, Germany
- 1992 David Rabinowitch Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden -Baden, Germany
- 1989 -evidence Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, group exhibition curated by Harald Szeemann
- 1987 Documenta 8 in Kassel
- 1986 Situation Kunst for Max Imdahl
- 1982 documenta 7 in Kassel
- 1978 Raoul De Keyser, David Rabinowitch, Richard Tuttle, Philippe Van Snick SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Arts, Ghent
- 1977 Skulptur.Projekte, Münster
- 1977 documenta 6 in Kassel
- 1975 David Rabinowitch with Klaus Rinke Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany